Who is this King of Glory

“We're citizens of high heaven! We're waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He'll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him.” Philippians 3:20-21 (The Message)

Regardless of our circumstances we have the greatest of hope! A hope not seen. A hope promised by the keeper of promises, our Lord and Savior.

Our bodies will fail us, friends may get stupid and betray us, and lets face it… we are human and we all make bumbling mistakes. And in looking at all that and looking at all the financial woes of America and beyond its easy to get down, despondent, and discouraged. Boy, we are a spoiled lot!

Yet, I see in scripture a beautiful story of hope coming of age right now… right before our eyes.

I see a season of change. True on one hand I see humanism, socialism, and the supposed glory of human intellect all coming together to ‘save the earth’. I’m seeing the suppression of noble thought, the quieting of good creative speech, and the subjegegation of anything Godly, Holy, and righteous. I’m looking around and seeing the effects of “the love of many growing cold” (Matt. 24:12).

Ah, but that is the looking at the troubled waters that Peter peeked at… yet, when I gaze at our coming King I see the soon arrival of His Glory! The marching steps of His saint-army, clothed in white, clothed in righteousness… cleansed by the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ.

I hope for the King of Glory on his throne… dipped in full majesty, honored fully, magnified, and exalted above every name that is named! (Revelation 19)

“Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory” (Psalm 24.10).

This is our hope. A hope of the coming King. A promise that needs reminding, needs saying, and needs repeating all to compete against the present war of thought and words that besets us. And presently we may grow weary, we may grow faint, but we can never truly grow discouraged when we look at the great hope found in God’s beautiful Word.